The music, arts and flower folks are planning wonderful things for Holy Week liturgies. Your donations are gratefully accepted to help pay for guest musicians, altar piece materials, etc. Thanks in advance for helping to create an inspiring culmination of our Lenten journey.
If you’d like to make a donation to help support these programs, please [...]
Singing with the Choir during this time is a wonderful opportunity to participate more fully in the liturgies and community life of Redeemer. All adults and teens with an interest in singing are welcome. For more information, please contact Sheila Bristow at music@redeemer-kenmore.org.
Choir schedule for Lent and Holy Week
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Every year, anyone from the parish is welcome to present one of the six readings for the night of the Great Paschal Vigil, which is on April 11 this year.
If you want to seize this opportunity to sing, act, play an instrument, read a poem or short story, or tell one of these [...]
A very sincere thank you to all who made the logistics of Holy Week happen. These include:
Helping in the food activities, making lunch on Lazarus Saturday, dinner on Maundy Thursday, setting up for and cleaning up after lunch, dinner, or the Agape.
Preparing the Education Building for the Altar of Repose, setting up for [...]
“The words of the Exultet mean exactly what they say. This is the night when we have passed over from death to life, and bondage to sin has been broken. This is the night that the past and the present and the future have come together and there is no time. It’s not a metaphor. [...]
[ April 6, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] To: All Team Captains, Rehearsal Leaders, and Volunteer Assistants
Lest we forget all that was good or what needs improvement, let’s get together on Sunday, April 6 at 12:00 PM following Coffee Hour. If you cannot make it, please forward your responses to me, via e-mail. Consider the following:
1. Were there volunteers who didn’t [...]
Read full post...Maundy Thursday
6:00 PM – Soup Supper
7:30 PM – Liturgy
9:00 PM-12:00 AM – Gethsemane Vigil (Undercroft)
Good Friday
Noon – 3:00 PM – Nave open for private prayer
7:30 PM – Good Friday Liturgy
Holy Saturday
10:00 AM – Ministry of the Word (Education building)
The Great Vigil (Saturday night)
9:00 PM – Vigil, followed by a gala Agape
(Overflow parking is available across [...]
[ March 22, 2008; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] 9:00 AM to Noon – Rehearsals and preparation for the Great Vigil
10:00 AM – Ministry of the Word (Education building)
Read full post...[ March 21, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Noon – 3:00 PM – Nave open for private prayer
7:30 PM – Good Friday Liturgy
The gentlemen of the choir will sing a close-harmony arrangement of “Were You There†by noted African American composer/arranger H. T. Burleigh.
At this liturgy, the first thing to strike our senses is the unfamiliar barrenness of the worship space. There is [...]
Read full post...[ March 20, 2008; 7:30 pm; ] 6:00 PM – Soup Supper
7:30 PM – Liturgy
9:00 PM to 12:00 AM – Gethsemane Vigil (Undercroft)
The word “Maundy†in this day’s title comes from the Latin word “mandatum†which means “commandmentâ€. It is taken from the Gospel according to John’s account of Jesus’ washing of the disciples feet at the Last Supper.
On this day [...]
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